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[nullorvoid]

Two questions.

[Well, it looks like someone's back on the network now that all the general insanity is...mostly over; audio-only again, because apparently that's just how he's going to do things.]

One: is there some way to get levels on your Pokémon without making them fight? I've got one who's decided he's a lover, not a fighter, which is cute and all but he needs the levels and I'm not going to see if the stupid trees will let me wish levels onto him.

[He pauses for a moment once that's out there, though.]

The other thing is that I misplaced a couple people. Somehow. They were here this weekend; I can't find them as of yesterday.

One's fine on her own. The other's someone who shouldn't be wandering around by herself.

[God, no one explained fourth wall to him.]

Comments

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[ossifragant]

I've never heard of a Pokemon that doesn't like fighting at all before, that's pretty inconvenient.

Maybe it's possible to show 'em battling is fun, or something like that.

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[nullorvoid]

That'd be nice, yeah. I don't usually care what these things want to do, if they want to just mill around and not do anything that's fine by me most of the time, but you try to battle with this one at all and he just gets all offended and I don't have time for that.

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[ossifragant]

Never heard of a pacifist Pokemon before.

[Why is that a thing.]

I can think of a couple solutions, but they both seem like a pain in the ass. You might be able to switch it out for one that likes fighting at the start of a battle, but that wastes a turn and I don't even know if you can make something level up that way. The other way is figuring out why it hates fighting in the first place, but that might take even longer.

[nullorvoid]

[Because Constans insists on being more trouble than he's worth, that's why.]

Normally I wouldn't care so much about that last one being such a pain, but these things are both better and worse than most people from what I've seen - usually what they do makes sense, which is better, but when it doesn't it's not like they can tell you why they're doing anything.

So it's all trial and error by necessity. And that's annoying. I'll do it if I have to, I was just wondering if there's a third option.

[ossifragant]

I think you can give 'em candies to make them level up, but they're pretty rare.

[Pun entirely unintended on his part.]

They don't seem to sell them in shops, not that I've seen anyway.

[nullorvoid]

Someone mentioned...something like that. Feed it to them and it's like steroids or something?

[...Ginti, no.]

[ossifragant]

[Ginti yes.]

Something like that. If you had enough, I bet you could make a Pokemon evolve without ever needing to train them.

[nullorvoid]

[He has to admit he's curious.]

And you know about these things...how?

[ossifragant]

I've been here for over a year. After you're here long enough, you end up going with the flow.

[nullorvoid]

Seems there are a lot of you that've been here for a while. Almost everyone I talk to has been, anyway, either that or they just showed up.

[ossifragant]

I was completely lost when I first showed up. Seems like it's a common problem to have. I can't blame anyone for being incredibly confused about this place.

At least it means people are capable of helping each other out. Not a bad trade-off.

[nullorvoid]

I can't really blame anyone for being lost, yeah - this is completely different from what I'm used to, anyway.

[He shrugs, though.]

If I've got questions, I ask. It's done pretty well so far, I've found some useful people. So I'm not gonna complain about it.

[ossifragant]

Seems like a reasonable thing to do. No sense not asking, yeah?

I don't see the point in not asking, peresonally.

[nullorvoid]

Well, yeah. You're either going to look stupid for two seconds because you had to ask, or you're going to have a problem later because you should know something basic but you don't.

[ossifragant]

Fortunately, even the people who have been here for years know this world is strange as hell. It never gets any less strange, either. It just gets easier to think "oh, something strange is happening again" like it's not a very big deal.

[nullorvoid]

...In other words, don't think about anything too much. Got it.

[ossifragant]

...Basically, yeah.

This place likes to get to you. Can't really tell you why, just that weird things happen all the time.

[nullorvoid]

...Wait, do you mean like it'll throw specific stuff at you in particular sometimes, or it's just a pain in the neck in ways that're going to get old really fast?

[ossifragant]

Oh, no, not me in particular; it's the latter. After a certain point, weird things happen and you either go "not this shit again" or you think maybe something interesting will happen this time.

[nullorvoid]

...Well, being jaded is better than being individually screwed with, I guess.

[ossifragant]

...at least it's a decent kind of jaded and not being jaded over constant bloodshed.

I'll take not being fazed by brightly colored animals anymore.

[...of course, Greed is completely unfazed by violence, but details.]